Is pool mining LTC on a laptop CPU a bad idea?

Jupitercoin

newbie

Activity: 42

Merit: 0

Quote from: snowmonkey on May 13, 2013, 08:43:49 AM

It's a bad idea. Laptops don't have the air circulation needed so it will over-heat very quickly. Also, the amount of kh/s's it generates will more than likely not be enough to even cover the electricity you've used.

Yes. Your laptop may overheat due to its small size and reduced air circulation. Most likely your processor will not be very powerful as well.

i3lome

full member

Activity: 210

Merit: 100

Quote from: QueenB on May 13, 2013, 09:48:11 PM

Quote from: i3lome on May 13, 2013, 06:32:15 PM

Where i live I dont have to pay for electric its wrapped up in the rent, I know everything in life cost something. My position is that i didnt have to shell out my pay from my job to get started mining. I used what I have to start with and will hopefully be able to use my earnings to make a earn a gpu. It will take me a long time but am willing to do so, to keep my cost low. Between rent, bills and kids I cant afford to shell out $300 Card to mine faster. It would be nice but for me its not possible. Im in the poor house and found Ltc Mining and Trading on Btc-e to be a good hobby, I dont look at it a a source of income. It will probably take me a year to make anything off it

What is your config? and what do you use to mine (cgminer, guiminer..)? am a bit curious

I have 1- Athlon 64 X2 2.3ghz- ScryptMiner ~4.4 Kh/s and 1- Pentium Duo Core 2.7ghz -ScryptMiner ~14.8kh/s and sometimes i get to use a laptop 1.6 Ghz Cpu- ScryptMiner ~1.3-2 Kh/s

Stouse49

full member

Activity: 209

Merit: 100

I was using my Windows 8 i3 laptop to do some LTC mining when I first started. Using one of those LTC calculators, today I found that it would mine about 8 cents per day and use 11 cents a day in power.

QueenB

member

Activity: 70

Merit: 10

Quote from: i3lome on May 13, 2013, 06:32:15 PM

Where i live I dont have to pay for electric its wrapped up in the rent, I know everything in life cost something. My position is that i didnt have to shell out my pay from my job to get started mining. I used what I have to start with and will hopefully be able to use my earnings to make a earn a gpu. It will take me a long time but am willing to do so, to keep my cost low. Between rent, bills and kids I cant afford to shell out $300 Card to mine faster. It would be nice but for me its not possible. Im in the poor house and found Ltc Mining and Trading on Btc-e to be a good hobby, I dont look at it a a source of income. It will probably take me a year to make anything off it

What is your config? and what do you use to mine (cgminer, guiminer..)? am a bit curious

i3lome

full member

Activity: 210

Merit: 100

Where i live I dont have to pay for electric its wrapped up in the rent, I know everything in life cost something. My position is that i didnt have to shell out my pay from my job to get started mining. I used what I have to start with and will hopefully be able to use my earnings to make a earn a gpu. It will take me a long time but am willing to do so, to keep my cost low. Between rent, bills and kids I cant afford to shell out $300 Card to mine faster. It would be nice but for me its not possible. Im in the poor house and found Ltc Mining and Trading on Btc-e to be a good hobby, I dont look at it a a source of income. It will probably take me a year to make anything off it

nerFohanzo

hero member

Activity: 631

Merit: 500

Quote from: i3lome on May 13, 2013, 04:43:23 PM

I use a Laptop for a Cpu Mining worker, I get about ~2-3kh/s from this Laptop old Pentium Duo Core. I dont have it tweaked to max hash rate to prevent over heating, I also use a laptop chiller.

Between 3 pc's and a laptop I mine at ~23khs, yes it is not much at all but Im still grinding away. If you want to mine go ahead and get started use what you have. Low hash rate shouldnt discourage you, it just takes alot longer.

I would try it only at work computer.

Because I paying both, laptop purchase & elecricity bills with hard earned money, i wouldnt try it at home.

But then, lucky childs who thinks all is free

i3lome

full member

Activity: 210

Merit: 100

I use a Laptop for a Cpu Mining worker, I get about ~2-3kh/s from this Laptop old Pentium Duo Core. I dont have it tweaked to max hash rate to prevent over heating, I also use a laptop chiller.

Between 3 pc's and a laptop I mine at ~23khs, yes it is not much at all but Im still grinding away. If you want to mine go ahead and get started use what you have. Low hash rate shouldnt discourage you, it just takes alot longer.

V.Viktor

newbie

Activity: 5

Merit: 0

Laptops in general have cooling issues due to their small form factor, so using either a laptop's CPU or GPU would be a bad idea -- you could damage the hardware with the airflow most laptops get.

K31thL

newbie

Activity: 5

Merit: 0

It will help with your learning curve if you just want to play, but long term its not viable, both for the health of the lap0top and the lack of coins you will mine.

BitshireHashaway

full member

Activity: 182

Merit: 100

Quote from: BitcoinBoss on May 13, 2013, 08:27:11 AM

Is pool mining LTC on a laptop CPU a bad idea? I know the hashrate will be incredibly low, but will it do damage to the CPU / laptop? Is it just a cooling issue or are there other factors which make this a bad idea? Many thanks

Depends on your laptop. I have an Alienware m14x with a high end i7 and top notch cooling system and when I mine my CPU hits 90 celcius (the max is 105) with the fun running max so be careful. If you have like a mac book pro don't do it.

karasako

full member

Activity: 165

Merit: 100

It's fine if you just play around.. and learning. For actual profit it's pointless... and some older laptops like to switch off now and then.

ethought

legendary

Activity: 1316

Merit: 1000

Long term its a bad idea.

Short term - if you have no other hardware available and just want to 'test' out mining for fun then I don't think it will do much damage to your laptop if you did it for a few days, or until you got better hardware. But don't expect to get much out of it. If you mined litecoin on a CPU that got 30kH/s you would make 0.34 litecoins per week for a grand total value of about $1 Shocked

Mortus

newbie

Activity: 17

Merit: 0

I would say bad idea and almost pointless, I was getting less then 20mh on a 2600k I7.

Sad

mokahless

sr. member

Activity: 471

Merit: 256

The largest concern with heat in a laptop is actually the long-term effects on reducing the battery's lifespan. When I mine, I take my battery out. I also manually throttle my mobile i7 to reduce the temperature. Your other big concern would be reducing the lifespan of the fan keeping the laptop cool. The actual effect on the cpu itself is mostly exaggerated but does exist in the long-term.

BitcoinBoss

sr. member

Activity: 404

Merit: 250

I thought as much, but just wanted to check. I don't have a desktop, so looks like I will need to save up so I can build a basic rig with proper cooling and GPU.

crymo

newbie

Activity: 56

Merit: 0

very bad idea.

blindfaith

member

Activity: 84

Merit: 10

www.coincloud.tk :)

-gets paranoid but will watch this topic now- Tongue

My topic is kind of related.. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/noob-question-am-i-mining-lol-203895

FeedbackLoop

hero member

Activity: 742

Merit: 500

...and the heat might reduce the life time of your laptop's harddrive. At least if it's not SD.

snowmonkey

newbie

Activity: 14

Merit: 0

It's a bad idea. Laptops don't have the air circulation needed so it will over-heat very quickly. Also, the amount of kh/s's it generates will more than likely not be enough to even cover the electricity you've used.

BitcoinBoss

sr. member

Activity: 404

Merit: 250

Quote from: gambit1 on May 13, 2013, 08:39:24 AM

Are you the guy mentioned of the "Plan B" bitcoin show on Jupiter Broadcasting? Grin

No I'm not, why do you ask?

Topic: Is pool mining LTC on a laptop CPU a bad idea? (Read 4190 times)